A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. ~Chinese Proverb
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A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. ~Indian Proverb
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With lies you may get ahead in the world, but you can never go back. ~Russian Proverb
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Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking. ~Chinese Proverb
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ~Chinese Proverb
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To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do. ~Spanish Proverb
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Fresh air impoverishes the doctor. ~Danish Proverb
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. ~Trevor Baylis
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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. ~Chinese Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly. ~Ernest Hemingway
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Hardest job in America is being a single mom. There are a lot of them and a lot of them in Baltimore and I think that they absolutely do their best. They can't keep continue to do their best if businesses flee the city. ~Dana Perino
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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
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He who takes medicine and neglects to diet wastes the skill of his doctors. ~Chinese Proverb
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Do not water your weeds. ~Proverb
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I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good. ~Brad Goreski
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An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella. ~Japanese Proverb
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If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't spent a night with a mosquito. ~African Proverb
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